{"id":445545,"date":"2026-01-31T17:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T17:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T17:14:10","slug":"the-tv-industry-finally-concedes-that-the-future-may-not-be-in-8k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/445545\/","title":{"rendered":"The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day.<\/p>\n

In 2012, Sharp brought the first 8K TV prototype to the CES trade show in Las Vegas. In 2015, the first 8K TVs<\/a> started selling in Japan for 16 million yen (about $133,034 at the time), and in 2018, Samsung released the first 8K TVs in the US<\/a>, starting at a more reasonable $3,500. By 2016, the Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) had a specification for supporting 8K (Display Port1.4), and the HDMI Forum followed suit (with HDMI 2.1). By 2017, Dell had an 8K computer monitor<\/a>. In 2019, LG released the first 8K OLED TV, further pushing the industry\u2019s claim<\/a> that 8K TVs were\u00a0\u201cthe future<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n


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A marketing image for 8K TVs that\u2019s (still) on LG\u2019s US website.<\/p>\n

A marketing image for 8K TVs that\u2019s (still) on LG\u2019s US website.<\/p>\n

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LG<\/p>\n

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However, 8K never proved its necessity or practicality.<\/p>\n

TV companies are quitting 8K<\/p>\n

LG Display is no longer making 8K LCD or OLED panels, FlatpanelsHD<\/a> reported today. Earlier this month, an LG Display representative told FlatpanelsHD<\/a> that the panel supplier is \u201ctaking a comprehensive view of current display market trends and the trends within the 8K content ecosystem.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs our technical readiness is already complete, LG Display is fully prepared to respond immediately whenever the market and customers determine that the timing is right,\u201d LG Display\u2019s representative said.<\/p>\n

LG Electronics was the first and only company to sell 8K OLED TVs, starting with the 88-inch Z9 in 2019. In 2022, it lowered the price-of-entry<\/a> for an 8K OLED TV by $7,000 by charging $13,000 for a 76.7-inch TV.<\/p>\n

FlatpanelsHD cited anonymous sources who said that LG Electronics would no longer restock the 2024 QNED99T<\/a>, which is the last LCD 8K TV that it released.<\/p>\n

LG\u2019s 8K abandonment follows other brands distancing themselves from 8K. TCL, which released its last 8K TV in 2021, said<\/a> in 2023 that it wasn\u2019t making more 8K TVs due to low demand. Sony discontinued<\/a> its last 8K TVs in April and is unlikely to return to the market, as it plans to sell the majority ownership of its Bravia TVs to TCL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-445545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}